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HANCOCK v. BUTLER

401 S.W.2d 776 (1966)

Waddell Walker HANCOCK, and Katherine Walker Keeble as Co-Executrices of the Estate of Mrs. Seth M. Walker, Deceased, Appellees, v. G. Hilton BUTLER, Commissioner Department of Revenue of the State of Tennessee, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

April 6, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hooker, Keeble, Dodson & Harris, Nashville, for appellees.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., Milton P. Rice and William H. Lassiter, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Nashville, for appellant.

DYER, Justice.

This is a suit filed by Appellees to recover inheritance taxes paid, under protest, to the State of Tennessee.

On 11 February 1960 Mrs. Seth M. Walker, of Nashville, Tennessee, executed two written instruments. First an instrument creating a trust in favor of her daughter, Waddell Walker Hancock, for life and then generally to the children of this daughter. Under this instrument Waddell Walker Hancock and her husband, A.B. Hancock, Jr., were...

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